The pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) is a songbird native to Australia. Described by John Gould in 1837, it is 28 to 32 cm (11 to 12.5 in) long. It has a pale hooked bill and a black head, throat and mantle. Much of the tail and wings is also black, and the neck, underparts and outer wing feathers are white. The juvenile and immature birds are predominantly brown and white. There are two recognised subspecies. Within its large range, the pied butcherbird is generally non-migratory. Common in woodlands and in urban environments, it is carnivorous, eating insects and small vertebrates, including birds. A tame and inquisitive bird, the pied butcherbird has been known to accept food from humans. It nests in trees, constructing a cup-shaped structure out of sticks and laying two to five eggs. Some mated pairs benefit from cooperative breeding, in which other birds help feed the young and defend the nest. (Full article...)

Grimskär

• ... that the island Grimskär (pictured) was probably used for executions of criminals, whose bodies were left there on display as a warning to passing ships?
• ... that the wedding of Jan Opaliński became infamous due to several accidents and quarrels?
• ... that the lyrics of "Bull Believer" were inspired by Cocaine & Rhinestones and contain references to Mortal Kombat and Augustine of Hippo?
• ... that soprano Muriel Wilson stated that her ability to sing was impaired after her skull was fractured in a car accident?
• ... that the MacBook Neo uses a processor found in iPhones?
• ... that the 2026 Lake Tahoe avalanche was the deadliest in the United States since 1981?
• ... that Vinson Cunningham based his novel Great Expectations on his work for Barack Obama's presidential campaign?
• ... that some forms of the Romanian lăutari violin have extra strings that are added only for resonance and never played directly?
• ... that a convicted bank robber argued that a restitution law could not apply to him because it did not exist when he committed the crime?

Mette Frederiksen

• NASA launches the lunar flyby mission Artemis II, the first crewed mission past low Earth orbit since Apollo 17.
• The Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured), remain the largest party after the Danish general election, with no political bloc winning a majority of seats.
• In Italy, voters reject a reform of the judicial system in a constitutional referendum.
• A Colombian Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, killing 70 people.

April 2: World Autism Awareness Day; Malvinas Day in Argentina (1982) ; First Day of Passover (Judaism, 2026)

W. S. Gilbert

• 1513 – Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León sighted land in North America, naming the area La Florida.
• 1871 – Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert (pictured), premiered at the Court Theatre in London.
• 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the first national census of the country.
• 2015 – Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya, killing 148 people and wounding 79 others.

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  位于意大利罗马坎皮特利区的圣方济加堂（Santa Francesca Romana）。

Dirty Dick, real name Nathaniel Bentley (c. 1735 – 1809), was an English merchant known for his filthy appearance. Once nicknamed "the beau of Leadenhall Street", in his late thirties Bentley became parsimonious and stopped cleaning himself and his shop. He and his shop became well known and were lampooned in the press. People visited the outlet to see the squalor and noted that he was polite and had impeccable manners. Rumours circulated that he had not washed since his fiancée had died on their wedding eve and that he had locked the dining room, complete with the wedding feast, and left it to moulder. Bentley moved out of his shop in 1804 and its contents were sold off. A publican purchased some of the contents, including mummified rats and cats, and used them to decorate his pub, which he renamed Dirty Dicks. Bentley died in Scotland. His story was known by the writer Charles Dickens, and Bentley's locked dining room may have inspired the locked room of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. (Full article...)

Doing surgery on a grape

• ... that they did surgery on a grape (pictured)?
• ... that Elvis the Pelvis got rickets from hibernating?
• ... that sardines had engines?
• ... that Robert Uzgalis made the Leaning Tower of Pisa straight?
• ... that French girls premiered on a livestream?
• ... that Tarzan is currently an advisor for higher education?
• ... that there's a term?
• ... that Krispy Kream is not allowed to sell doughnuts?
• ... that a fashion designer expressed his career frustrations with a golden shower?
• ... that Allah made sure that Queen Elizabeth II was in bed by 19:15?

Mette Frederiksen

• The Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured), remain the largest party after the Danish general election, with no political bloc winning a majority of seats.
• In Italy, voters reject a reform of the judicial system in a constitutional referendum.
• A Colombian Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, killing 70 people.
• In mathematics, Gerd Faltings is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.

April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day (1979)

The first Apple, Inc. logo

• 1346 – Hundred Years' War: John, Duke of Normandy, laid siege to the town of Aiguillon.
• 1922 – Under the South Seas Mandate, Japan set up a government in Koror, precipitating large-scale Japanese settlement in Palau.
• 1976 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Inc. (first logo pictured).
• 2001 – An American Lockheed EP-3 and a Chinese Shenyang J-8 collided in mid-air off Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.

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  維京天空號（Viking Sky，游轮，2017年），停泊在法國埃罗省塞特港。

The Duke of Windsor inspecting German troops

The 1937 tour of Germany by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was opposed by the British government, which feared that Nazi Germany would use the visit for propaganda. After Edward VIII's abdication in December 1936, his brother George VI became king. Given the title of Duke of Windsor, Edward married Wallis Simpson in June 1937. He appeared to have been sympathetic to Germany in this period and announced his intention to travel there privately to tour factories. He promised the British government that he would keep a low profile, and the tour went ahead between 12 and 23 October. The Windsors visited factories, many of which were producing materiel for the war effort, and the Duke inspected German troops (pictured). They dined with prominent Nazis, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Albert Speer, and also had tea with Adolf Hitler at his house at Berchtesgaden. (Full article...)

Kim Petras

• ... that Kim Petras (pictured) was described as the "world's youngest" person to transition?
• ... that the first Agender Pride Day took place months after a 27-year-old Oregon resident was legally recognised as agender?
• ... that a textile cooperative that helps to lift trans women out of poverty was named after activist Nadia Echazú?
• ... that sixteen countries fully recognize a non-binary gender marker for all individuals?
• ... that Sharifa Yazmeen, a transgender Egyptian-American theatre director, was the inaugural winner of the Barbara Whitman Award?
• ... that the novel We Are Green and Trembling was inspired by a 17th-century explorer who was born as a woman but lived as a man?
• ... that the trans woman Hannah Nokes was profiled in 1936 after getting electricity in her house?
• ... that a benefit concert for the trans community paid tribute to Alice Litman, who took her life after being denied gender-affirming care?
• ... that Marsha P. Johnson once stated that there were "no straight people"?

Mette Frederiksen

• The Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured), remain the largest party after the Danish general election, with no political bloc winning a majority of seats.
• In Italy, voters reject a reform of the judicial system in a constitutional referendum.
• A Colombian Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, killing 70 people.
• In mathematics, Gerd Faltings is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.

March 31: International Transgender Day of Visibility; Farmworkers Day in various U.S. states

TAROM Flight 371

• 1146 – French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at a council in Vézelay, with King Louis VII in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines.
• 1910 – Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.
• 1995 – TAROM Flight 371 (pictured) crashed near Balotești, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
• 2023 – A tornado caused the collapse of a venue hosting a sold-out concert in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, resulting in one death and 48 injuries.

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  印度拉贾斯坦邦塔爾沙漠的沙丘。1949年的今天，印度擺脫英國殖民統治獲得獨立，幾個拉傑普特土邦併入印度聯邦，拉賈斯坦邦也因此成立。

Alysa Liu at the 2025 World Championships

The 2025 World Figure Skating Championships were held from March 26 to 30, 2025, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union, the World Figure Skating Championships are considered the most prestigious event in figure skating. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The competition determined the entry quotas for each skating federation to the 2026 Winter Olympics. Ilia Malinin of the United States won the men's event for the second time, while Alysa Liu (pictured), also of the United States, won the women's event while accomplishing a personal-best score in the short program and free skating routines. Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan won the pairs event, earning their second title, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States won the ice dance event for the third consecutive year. (Full article...)

Te Ahi Tupua

• ... that Te Ahi Tupua (pictured) is reportedly the largest 3D-printed sculpture in the world?
• ... that Minnesota's national-championship quarterback Babe LeVoir became the commander of US aircraft-carrier athletics in the Pacific during World War II?
• ... that a purported "Clinton plan" cited by Trump officials came from Russian intelligence material later described as likely disinformation?
• ... that the album Duetos, despite receiving mixed reviews, sold more than 100,000 copies within three weeks of release?
• ... that Jade Jones, Great Britain's first Olympic gold medallist in taekwondo, now competes as a boxer?
• ... that a reviewer called a Justin Timberlake song a "clunky jungle-as-sex metaphor"?
• ... that designs for the 1932 Broadway production of Alice in Wonderland mirrored the original novel's illustrations "down to the smallest prop"?
• ... that winter snows were so deep in Castelluccio di Norcia that residents dug tunnels to reach the church?
• ... that a "banana woman" opposed a "banana miracle"?

Mette Frederiksen

• The Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured), remain the largest party after the Danish general election, with no political bloc winning a majority of seats.
• In Italy, voters reject a reform of the judicial system in a constitutional referendum.
• A Colombian Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, killing 70 people.
• In mathematics, Gerd Faltings is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.

March 30: Land Day in Palestinian communities (1976)

George I of Greece

• 1730 – The Author's Farce, by Henry Fielding, premiered at the Little Theatre in London.
• 1861 – British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using flame spectroscopy.
• 1863 – George I (pictured) became King of the Hellenes.
• 1921 – The Australian Air Corps was disbanded, to be replaced the following day by the Australian Air Force.
• 1950 – Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.
• 2009 – The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries.

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  波蘭皮耶尼內山脈的日出。

The Goldfinch is a painting of a chained goldfinch by Carel Fabritius, a Dutch Golden Age artist. Signed and dated 1654, it is now in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. The work is a trompe-l'œil oil painting on panel measuring 33.5 by 22.8 centimetres (13.2 by 9.0 in) that was once part of a larger structure, perhaps a window jamb or a protective cover. A common and colourful bird with a pleasant song, the goldfinch was used in Italian Renaissance painting as a symbol of Christian redemption and the Passion of Jesus. The Goldfinch is unusual for Dutch Golden Age paintings in the simplicity of its composition and use of illusionary techniques. After Fabritius was killed in the gunpowder explosion that destroyed much of the city of Delft in 1654, the painting was lost for more than two centuries before its rediscovery in Brussels. It plays a central role in the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and also in its film adaptation. (Full article...)

Michael Gove

• ... that UK MP Michael Gove (pictured) won a televised quiz show before entering politics?
• ... that the freighter Hippocampus was sunk by fruit?
• ... that costume designer Gwen Wakeling crafted Shirley Temple's on-screen image by working on 14 of her films?
• ... that the melody of "Fly-Day Chinatown" was said to have "the soaring wings of a phoenix"?
• ... that Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt once attributed a New York City statue to Michelangelo?
• ... that one of Indonesia's largest charities was established by a group of journalists in response to a local famine?
• ... that Francis Scobell prevented Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun from killing a coachman?
• ... that one Legends of Tomorrow episode is named after a classic Western film?
• ... that Cuban swimmer Rafael Polinario had to defect to Canada instead of Spain after Fidel Castro's brother got on his plane?

Mette Frederiksen

• The Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured), remain the largest party after the Danish general election, with no political bloc winning a majority of seats.
• In Italy, voters reject a reform of the judicial system in a constitutional referendum.
• A Colombian Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, killing 70 people.
• In mathematics, Gerd Faltings is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.

March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)

Terracotta Army

• 845 – Viking expansion: Viking raiders, possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, plundered and occupied Paris, holding the city for a large ransom.
• 1823 – Joaquín de Oreamuno led a coup d'état that overthrew Rafael Francisco Osejo, attempting to restore allegiance to the Mexican Empire.
• 1931 – Authorities held an inquest at New Town, Tasmania, into the deaths of a woman and two children who were fatally poisoned after eating smooth toadfish.
• 1974 – A group of farmers in the Chinese province of Shaanxi discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.

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  玛丽·马丁與孩子們在百老匯音樂劇《音乐之声》的劇照。馬丁演出的原型人物玛利亚·冯·特拉普，於1987年的今天去世。

Ian Fleming

Octopussy and The Living Daylights is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming (pictured). The book is a collection of short stories, published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966, after Fleming's death in August 1964. The book originally contained two stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights"; later editions also included "The Property of a Lady" and subsequently also "007 in New York". The stories first appeared in different publications. Many elements from the stories are taken from Fleming's own interests and experiences, including climbing in Kitzbühel in Austria, wartime commando deeds, and the sea life of Jamaica. He used the names of friends and acquaintances for characters in the stories. Other elements from the stories have been used in the Bond films made by Eon Productions, including the background for the titular character in the film Octopussy. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and short stories.)

Portrait of Marie Salmon

• ... that Marie Salmon (pictured) was condemned to be burned at the stake for a crime she didn't commit, but narrowly avoided execution by claiming she was pregnant?
• ... that Yokohama's articulated tourist buses feature a matte metallic blue livery inspired by the city?
• ... that Ukrainian author Osyp Turiansky's works were suppressed in his homeland?
• ... that a reviewer called "Until the End of Time" "excessively bland"?
• ... that the current defense minister of Yemen Taher al-Aqili was injured in a landmine explosion while serving as chief of staff?
• ... that Montana voters in 1972 chose to keep the death penalty, allow for gambling to be legalized, have a bicameral legislature, and ratify a new constitution?
• ... that photographer John Humble used harsh late afternoon light to flatten the Los Angeles landscape?
• ... that there have been two unsuccessful proposals to make Curitiba Pride intangible cultural heritage?
• ... that "cannibalism, group sex, and snail orgies" hindered a tax avoidance scheme by the son of Tommy Ball?

Mette Frederiksen

• In Denmark, the Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured), remain the largest party after a general election, with no political bloc winning a majority of seats.
• A Colombian Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, killing 70 people.
• In mathematics, Gerd Faltings is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.
• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final.

March 28: Earth Hour (20:30 local time, 2026)

Bust of Pertinax

• 193 – The Praetorian Guard assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax (bust pictured) and sold the imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus.
• 1646 – Irish Confederate Wars: Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty, signed the First Ormond Peace for the Confederates in exchange for greater freedom of religion.
• 1968 – Colonel Sun, written by Kingsley Amis, was published, becoming the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

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  於冰島米湖上方記錄到的极光。

Men's trophy for the 2016 Boat Race

The Boat Races 2016 (also known for sponsorship reasons as The Cancer Research UK Boat Races) took place on 27 March 2016. The Boat Race is an annual set pf side-by-side rowing races between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of the River Thames in south-west London. For the first time in the history of the event, the men's, women's and both reserves' races were held on the Tideway on the same day. Trials for the race took place on the Championship Course in December 2015, and the selected crews took part in several practice races in the build-up to the main event. The weigh-in for the men's and women's races took place on 1 March 2016, with both Cambridge's men and women the heavier crews. Pre-race betting had Cambridge's men and Oxford's women as favourites. The men's race (trophy pictured) was won by Cambridge by two and a half lengths, taking the overall record in the event to 82–79 in their favour. (Full article...)

Apumanque Mall

• ... that the Apumanque Mall (pictured) is the oldest shopping mall in Chile?
• ... that the Mayor of Paris has suggested adding the name of Alice Sollier, the first Black French woman to qualify as a medical doctor, to the Eiffel Tower?
• ... that J Dilla worked on Donuts, which was released three days before his death, in the hospital?
• ... that the 1945–1948 Patriarch of the Universal Gnostic Church René Chambellant later became a Member of Parliament in the Central African Republic?
• ... that The Inklings suggests that J. R. R. Tolkien was jealous of C. S. Lewis's admiration of Charles Williams?
• ... that after being asked to resign due to his cancer, ambassador Ahmad Soedarsono responded that he wanted to die on duty?
• ... that the Chinese Australian Herald was distributed as far away as London, the Pacific Islands, and the Philippines?
• ... that Sachio Ashida rebuilt a guided missile computer and repurposed it for his experiments on brain tissue?
• ... that FC Barcelona refused to play a Copa del Rey game in 2000?

Colombian Lockheed C-130

• A Colombian Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes (aircraft pictured) during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, killing 70 people.
• In mathematics, Gerd Faltings is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.
• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final.
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.

March 27: Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (1918)

Washington Metro rolling stock

• 1625 – Charles I became King of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• 1941 – World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.
• 1976 – The Washington Metro (rolling stock pictured), the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.
• 2015 – Himeji Castle, the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years of restoration work.

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  哈萨克斯坦曼吉斯套州曼吉斯套區，Kyzylsai regional park，Kyzylkup table mountain。

Life restoration of Massospondylus

Massospondylus is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in southern Africa during the Early Jurassic, between 201 and 184 million years ago. It was described by Richard Owen in 1854 and is one of the first dinosaurs to have been named. Although the original fossils were destroyed in London during a bombing raid in World War II, a plethora of specimens have since been assigned to the genus, making it one of the best-known sauropodomorphs from the Early Jurassic. The genus contains two valid species, M. carinatus and M. kaalae. It was 4 to 6 metres (13 to 20 ft) long, with a long neck and tail, a small head, and a slender body. It moved on two legs and was probably a plant-eater. Clutches of eggs have been found, some of which contained embryos. Individuals accelerated or slowed down their growth depending on environmental factors such as food availability. The oldest known specimen was around 20 years of age. (Full article...)

Twisted Tea cans

• ... that Twisted Tea (cans pictured) was rebranded after being sued for trademark infringement?
• ... that Asma Nadia, who has travelled to 72 countries, has published dozens of books – including one with tips for Muslim travellers?
• ... that Maxentius was the last Roman emperor in the 4th century to reside in Rome?
• ... that Navajo American mathematician Thomas Storer invented one of the standard notations for compactly and precisely describing string figures?
• ... that a bride's farewell can be sung in Romanian traditional music as a lament – sometimes also played instrumentally as "the bride's sorrow"?
• ... that Rin Kurusu did not pursue voice acting earlier because she was already in an idol group?
• ... that Te Waihorotiu railway station is named after a now-covered stream that flows beneath Queen Street in Auckland, New Zealand?
• ... that Roger J. Landry attended both Harvard College and the Pontifical North American College with his identical twin brother?
• ... that a minigame in Rhythm Heaven Megamix allows players to feed turnips to a goat?

Gerd Faltings

• In mathematics, Gerd Faltings (pictured) is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.
• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final.
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.
• In Nigeria, a series of suspected Boko Haram bombings leaves 26 people dead and 146 others injured in Maiduguri, Borno State.

March 26: National Science Appreciation Day in various U.S. states

Saladin

• 1169 – Saladin (depicted on coin) was inaugurated as vizier of Egypt.
• 1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.
• 1974 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.
• 1991 – Singapore Airlines Flight 117 was hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and diverted to Changi Airport.

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  印度泰米尔纳德邦，位於尼尔吉里丘陵北坡，陡峭乾旱山谷中的Hullathy村落，村民們利用梯田和灌溉技術，成功發展種植蔬菜和茶葉等經濟作物。

King Henry VI

The Loveday of 1458 was a ritualistic reconciliation between warring factions of the English nobility at St Paul's Cathedral on 25 March 1458. It followed the start of the Wars of the Roses in 1455 and was the result of long negotiations initiated by King Henry VI to resolve the lords' rivalries. The result of these efforts was a settlement of some grievances and a public display of friendship. A procession went from Westminster Palace to St Paul's, with adversaries walking together, holding hands. Contemporaries varied in their views of the accord. Some wrote verses expressing hope that it would lead to new-found peace and prosperity; others were more pessimistic. In the long run, the King's Loveday and its agreements had no long-lasting benefit. Within a few months, petty violence between the lords had broken out again. Historians debate who—if anyone—gained from the 1458 Loveday, as the war it was intended to prevent was only deferred. (Full article...)

Relief of Maat

• ... that a stained-glass depiction of the Relief of Maat (pictured) has decorated Yale Law School's dining hall since 1930?
• ... that Mary Hannay Foott's best-known poem was inspired by the true story of two men who disappeared in the Australian outback in 1877?
• ... that the Cavinti Underground River and Caves Complex has a naturally formed "fountain of youth" from which visitors can drink?
• ... that Mabel Forrest wrote poetry that combined the Australian bush landscape with symbols of witchcraft and Celtic mythology?
• ... that Tennyson once quoted Catullus 96 to Thackeray while they dined?
• ... that Ethan Sanchez was nearly named "Diego Maradona Sanchez" by his father, but his mother's anesthesia wore off in time for her to dismiss the idea?
• ... that Soviet anarchists believed that a dictatorship was a necessary part of a transition towards anarchy and communism?
• ... that Aubrey Bowser worked as a porter at the New York Stock Exchange before becoming a published writer?
• ... that a KonoSuba PlayStation game features an "Underwear Judgement" system?

Maikel García

• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final (tournament MVP Maikel García pictured).
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.
• In Nigeria, a series of suspected Boko Haram bombings leaves 26 people dead and 146 others injured in Maiduguri, Borno State.
• Denis Sassou Nguesso is proclaimed the winner of the Republic of the Congo presidential election.

March 25: Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity); Bangladesh Genocide Remembrance Day

Scotia, part of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

• 708 – Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy.
• 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of Saturn.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American Patriot forces in Georgia conducted a raid on Tybee Island, with the primary goal of capturing runaway slaves seeking refuge with the British.
• 1903 – The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (ship pictured) anchored in the South Orkney Islands with the intention of establishing the first weather station in Antarctic territory.
• 2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the presidential vote days earlier, were arrested, including opposition leader Alyaksandr Kazulin.

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  小凤头鹦鹉（Cacatua sanguinea），記錄於南澳大利亚州墨累河Blanchetown一帶。

Dan Balan

"Despre tine" (Romanian for 'About You') is a dance-pop song by the Moldovan band O-Zone, released as a single by Media Services in Romania around December 2002. Written and produced by the band's founder Dan Balan (pictured), it was included on a reissue of their second studio album Number 1 (2002) and later on their third studio album DiscO-Zone (2003). "Despre tine" was recorded in September 2002 at the MOF Records studio with the assistance of Bogdan Popoiag. Following the international success of O-Zone's 2003 single "Dragostea din tei", "Despre tine" was re-released in select European markets in August 2004. At the MTV Romania Music Awards 2003, "Despre tine" won Best Song and Best Dance. It also received a nomination for Best Dance-Pop Song at the Radio România Actualități Awards the same year. It topped the Romanian Top 100 in 2003 and reached number one in Norway in 2004. The song was certified double gold in Romania and gold in France. (Full article...)

Flag of the Indian Communist Party

• ... that the Indian Communist Party distinguished itself from the Communist Party of India by using a yellow hammer and sickle on its flag (pictured)?
• ... that Queen Plaisance was chastised for carrying on with another woman's husband in a letter from the pope?
• ... that Tujiaaspis had a single pair of ridge-like fins that may have been the precursors to human arms and legs?
• ... that an International Booker Prize–nominated author has also won several awards as an actress?
• ... that the book Nightingales argues against the theory that Florence Nightingale was a lesbian?
• ... that a former police officer who shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein had been convicted of a quadruple murder?
• ... that lemon trees inspired a Spanish tourist train?
• ... that both of Lorinda Roland's parents, maternal grandparents, and maternal aunts were actors?
• ... that some Greenlanders wear "MAGA" hats reading "Make America Go Away"?

Maikel García

• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final (tournament MVP Maikel García pictured).
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.
• In Nigeria, a series of suspected Boko Haram bombings leave 26 dead and 146 injured in Maiduguri, Borno State.
• In Kazakhstan, voters approve a new constitution in a referendum.

March 24: World Tuberculosis Day

Cover of the 1921 Women's Olympiad

• 1882 – German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
• 1900 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck, mayor of New York City, broke ground for a new underground Rapid Transit Railroad that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• 1921 – The inaugural Women's Olympiad (cover pictured), the first international women's sports event, opened at the International Sporting Club of Monaco in Monte Carlo.
• 1976 – The Argentine military, led by Jorge Rafael Videla, deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, establishing a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process.
• 2015 – The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft, an Airbus A320, in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board, including himself.

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  這是约瑟夫·克里斯蒂安·莱恩德克一幅從未發表過的插圖，原計劃用於《星期六晚邮报》1943年的新年特刊。於2020年作為拍賣品而首次面世。

Ethan Hawke (born 1970) is an American actor, author and filmmaker whose career on screen and stage has spanned over four decades. Known for his versatile range of roles—often in art films—and collaborations with director Richard Linklater, he made his film debut in Explorers (1985) and gained fame with Dead Poets Society (1989), Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997) and Great Expectations (1998). He was nominated for Academy Awards for his roles in Training Day (2001), Boyhood (2014) and Blue Moon (2025), as well as for screenwriting two films from the Before trilogy (1995–2013), in which he also starred. Hawke saw commercial success with Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), The Magnificent Seven (2016) and the Black Phone films (2021–2025). He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and was nominated for a Tony Award in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. Hawke has authored five books and has four children from his two marriages. (Full article...)

Pellenes nigrociliatus

• ... that the jumping spider Pellenes nigrociliatus (pictured) makes a silk curtain across the entrance of the snail shell that it uses as a nest?
• ... that advertising material for an Indonesian film included an entire chapter of the Quran?
• ... that J. Verne Smith sold tires before becoming a state senator?
• ... that the construction of the Downtown Line required diverting the Singapore River?
• ... that Edward W. Hawthorne once called his research "a personal vendetta against ignorance"?
• ... that the Cristero Museum faced demolition even though it is located within a UNESCO site?
• ... that young-adult novelist Moa Backe Åstot also owns reindeer?
• ... that during the siege of Castelnaudary the defenders were caught off guard while eating – and won?
• ... that Neil Robertson once missed a tournament after setting his sat-nav to Barnsley instead of Barnsley?

Maikel García

• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final (tournament MVP Maikel García pictured).
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.
• In Kazakhstan, voters approve a new constitution in a referendum.
• Denis Sassou Nguesso is proclaimed the winner of the Republic of the Congo presidential election.

March 23 Pakistan Day (1956)

Battle of Uhud

• 625 – The Muslim army under Muhammad suffered a defeat against the Quraysh in the Battle of Uhud (depicted).
• 1839 – An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.
• 1919 – Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.
• 1991 – The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
• 2021 – A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Suez Canal for six days.

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  甲尻魚（Pygoplites diacanthus），埃及紅海拉斯穆罕默德國家公園。

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Chris Redfield is a character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. He was introduced as one of the two playable characters of the original Resident Evil, which was released on March 22, 1996, appearing with his partner Jill Valentine as members of the Raccoon Police Department's Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) unit. Chris and Jill fight against the Umbrella Corporation, which creates zombies and other bio-organic weapons through bioterrorism. Later, the pair become founding members of the United Nations' Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA). Chris is the protagonist in several Resident Evil games, novels, and films, and has also appeared in other game franchises. In later games, his features were based on New Zealand model Geordie Dandy. Critics have been polarized in their discussions of Chris, and several publications consider him one of the sexiest video game characters. (Full article...)

Anke Gowda displaying a book from his collection

• ... that an Indian sugar-factory timekeeper (pictured) founded a library with more than two million books?
• ... that the Delta River is likely older than the mountain range it cuts across?
• ... that Carlos Meléndez ran for both president and vice president in the 1903 Salvadoran presidential election?
• ... that the 1955 play Twelve Angry Men is often confused with a later version based on the 1957 film?
• ... that the nearly 3,000-year-old Temple of Awwam was the site of a suicide bombing in 2007?
• ... that, when Jim Fletcher appeared as Jay Gatsby in Gatz, his father – a physician with no acting experience – portrayed Gatsby's father?
• ... that the Vau i Dejës Hydroelectric Power Station generated more than half of Albania's electricity soon after its completion?
• ... that Charles Thau carried a machine-gun bullet in his cheek for six years after the Battle of Berlin before a dentist discovered it?
• ... that the song "Highness" has been compared to a pillow fight?

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• The entire Cuban electrical grid fails amid the United States oil blockade.
• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final (tournament MVP Maikel García pictured).
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.
• In Kazakhstan, voters approve a new constitution in a referendum.

March 22:

Comet Hale–Bopp

• 106 – The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
• 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
• 1934 – In golf, the first Masters Tournament was held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, United States.
• 1943 – World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn, in present-day Belarus, were massacred by Ukrainian and Belarusian Nazi collaborators.
• 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp (pictured) reached its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.

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  《松林的早晨》（Morning in a Pine Forest），伊万·希什金和Konstantin Savitsky的畫作，收藏於特列季亚科夫画廊。

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert. Among his early works were a ballet, a symphony, a cello concerto and a one-act comic opera, Cox and Box, which is still widely performed. He wrote his first opera with Gilbert, Thespis, in 1871. The impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1875 engaged Sullivan to write the music for a one-act piece, Trial by Jury, with a libretto by Gilbert. Its box-office success led the partners to create 12 full-length comic operas, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, though initially successful in 1891, has rarely been revived. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, 10 choral works and oratorios, 2 ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord". (Full article...)

Frontispiece to a forty-hadith manuscript

• ... that works in the forty-hadith genre (example pictured) were produced based on a hadith promising special treatment on Judgement Day?
• ... that the Awlad al-Imam were venerated for their knowledge and legacy, but none of their works have survived?
• ... that the Canal of Zubaidah, built on the order of a queen, provided water to Hajj pilgrims for over a thousand years?
• ... that American academic Intisar A. Rabb was inspired by a Supreme Court blog to launch an online portal containing Sharia texts?
• ... that one scholar read the film Para Perintis Kemerdekaan as offering a "revolutionary Islam" that seeks to emancipate women?
• ... that "Japan's most renowned Islamic scholar" once wrote a light novel and a manga?
• ... that the Jordan-based fashion company Shukr sells clothing named after prominent Muslim women?
• ... that people in the Indian subcontinent eat a sweet dish resembling a bird's nest during Ramadan?
• ... that Raşit Küçük, a biographer of Muhammad, earned his doctorate exploring love?

Maikel García

• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final (tournament MVP Maikel García pictured).
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.
• More than 100 people are killed by a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
• Denis Sassou Nguesso is proclaimed the winner of the Republic of the Congo presidential election.

March 21: Harmony Day in Australia; Oltenia Day in Romania

Alcatraz Island

• 1556 – Thomas Cranmer, a former archbishop of Canterbury and one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burned at the stake for heresy in Oxford, England.
• 1844 – The Baháʼí calendar, used in the Baháʼí Faith, began.
• 1963 – The Federal Bureau of Prisons closed Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island (pictured) in San Francisco Bay, California.
• 1983 – In the West Bank, a number of Palestinian girls complained of breathing difficulties due to strange odors, leading to accusations of poison gas.
• 2006 – Jack Dorsey sent the first message on the social-media network Twitter.